EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.Highlights from some of our more important editorials this past week. To read the editorials in full, please visit our Web site at www.dailynews.com. Hertzberg for mayor As a city in crisis, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. needs more than just an upgrade in the Mayor's Office. It needs a whole new direction. Voters couldn't do better than to vote for Bob Hertzberg for mayor on March 8. California giveaway For 18 years in a row, California has sent billions more in taxes to Washington than it gets back in services. The state can no longer afford to support the rest of the country. Do the time For three years, Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. has run a catch-and-release program in the county jail system, letting inmates out after serving as little as 10 percent of their sentences. The criminals have taken notice. Credibility gap credibility gap n. 1. Public skepticism about the truth of statements, especially official claims and pronouncements: "The credibility gap [is] Not one week after Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California shrilly shrill adj. shrill·er, shrill·est 1. High-pitched and piercing in tone or sound: the shrill wail of a siren. 2. predicted that Los Angeles would fall into a state of criminal chaos because the City Council failed to back his sales-tax hike measure, he is suddenly ``happy'' about his opponent's plan for cops. |
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